Stimulus 2.0

We haven't gotten any mail the last few days so I have a feeling when they can get to my street again it will be there. I hope anyway!

We only get mail delivered a couple times a week now even though I see the postie 5 days a week delivering parcels. I don't understand the mail here.

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We only get mail delivered a couple times a week now even though I see the postie 5 days a week delivering parcels. I don't understand the mail here.

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Covid is screwing everything up, at least here. Still no mail today. Before covid it was daily and often full of advertisements so we'd see the postie daily.

I deposited my stimulus 2.0 today to my US Credit Union account, via their app.  Now, I haven't needed to know before now... are these stimulus payments reportable to HMRC?

I deposited my stimulus 2.0 today to my US Credit Union account, via their app.  Now, I haven't needed to know before now... are these stimulus payments reportable to HMRC?

Nope!

Excellent.  Free monies!  Now I just need to file my 2020 tax return so I can get Stimulus 1.0.

That is great news! I work part time here in the UK ( under twenty hrs) and have lived here 3 years. I have not filed a US tax return except for when I first moved here and still had income in the US. I DO have a US bank account and credit card as well but not a US address. Do you know where I might find help to see if I get this past one or thinking ahead of the stimulus bill that is pending right now! Not sure what direction I need to look in! Thank you as always for your help, you are a blessing! xx

First thing I think you'll need to do (assuming that you're a USC) is get current with your US tax returns - hopefully with nothing for you to pay. I'm sure others on this forum can offer better advice than I can about how to get current in the most painless way possible.

That is great news! I work part time here in the UK ( under twenty hrs) and have lived here 3 years. I have not filed a US tax return except for when I first moved here and still had income in the US. I DO have a US bank account and credit card as well but not a US address. Do you know where I might find help to see if I get this past one or thinking ahead of the stimulus bill that is pending right now! Not sure what direction I need to look in! Thank you as always for your help, you are a blessing! xx

I'd recommend a thread in the tax part of the board for advice on how to catch up. The minimum income for married filing separately last year was $5 so you definitely need to file at least last year's and then 2020, and possibly more years.

Anyone else still waiting on theirs through the post?

No sign of any Stimulus check from out end just yet. I’m surprised the first one got here last year because the address was a mix of the UK address and US address.


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Still waiting in Liverpool.

I got mine direct deposit very early on.

My daughter did not get one. In looking at her 2019 tax year paperwork, she used the foreign income exclusion, which put her US income down to zero. (She need not have, she could have just declared the income and wouldn't have to pay taxes as it was below the standard deduction. But that's what she did.) She had gotten the first stimulus as a direct deposit. So it's not as if the IRS didn't have her bank info.  The payments were supposed to be based on the 2019 tax year info, I believe.  (I haven't checked up on that.) Either that or the fact that she didn't put her bank info on the 1040 for 2019 tax year blew something up in the computer system - even though they had it for the 2018 tax year.

We sent change of address forms to the IRS towards the end of last year, since the Royal Mail does not forward mail back to the USA, so they should have been able to find her if there were questions about her 2019-year tax forms. They are not sending a paper check or a debit card, either. Her info online on the stimulus checker just says "not available" which is, apparently, code for "it ain't coming."

I looked and it seems that these payments are actually advance tax credits that you would otherwise claim on your 2020 IRS return. One of the caveats is that you don't get a payment if you are a dependent adult, or if the IRS thinks you are likely to be a dependent adult. (The first payment need not be refunded if you do end up as a dependent adult, but it's not clear about the second one - different pieces of legislation.)

This year I most definitely am claiming head-of-household with an adult dependent (my daughter). I am thinking that perhaps they looked at her paperwork, saw the zero income, and assumed this might be the case. (?)  She cannot retroactively claim that second payment on her 1040 this year as she has had no income - although she could file a 1040, as a dependent she's not eligible for the credit so she can't claim it on the 1040 as all the advice being touted on various websites says to do.  Which is ok, I guess. She's not legally entitled to it.

Did she not have any income before you returned to the USA?

Income in 2019 yes. Reported on the 1040 where she claimed it all as excluded foreign earned income. It came to about $8k, if memory serves. Enough that I could not claim her as a dependent adult.

Income in 2020 no. We had been planning to leave in March/April-ish , and got locked down and stuck there until late summer, when the movers could work again. It has not been safe for her to look for work here yet.

Anyone else still waiting on theirs through the post?

No sign of any Stimulus check from out end just yet. I’m surprised the first one got here last year because the address was a mix of the UK address and US address.


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yup.

i got stimulus part 1 via check, haven't seen part 2!

yup.

i got stimulus part 1 via check, haven't seen part 2!

Still waiting for the 2nd check in London too - recieved the first one through the post last year.